Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination

by Kathleen Stock

Book Overview

Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'.
The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine. Historically, this sort of view has been highly unpopular. Literary theorists and philosophers alike have poured...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198849761
• ISBN13: 9780198849766
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"